http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/i/4608.html

Passes 1 million homes, but no data on how many have bought it. Do you have numbers that we don't know about?

Freeserve was £40, confusion arises from memory due to
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/i/240.html
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/i/286.html

Then later in 2001
http://www.thinkbroadband.com/news/i/324.html

There is the myth that people will not pay more for HS Broadband but all the market rearch shows it is not an issue

If you take mobile phones and the average monthly spend is about £37 and in the end a phone is just a phone. They have certainly been very good at getting people to parts with their money to buy things they dont really need

It makes HS Broadband look like a bargain

Have you got a link to this market research? I'd be interested to see how much people would pay

In reply to a post by MrSaffron:

LLU backhaul will allow TalkTalk et al to offer a better FTTC experience than other providers

A MSAN providers voice, xDSL and fibre connectivity options, only those LLU providers who did not use a modern MSAN are in trouble.

To your Knowledge, did bulldog/CW deploy modern MSAN's for LLU?

In reply to a post by Bob_s2:

There is the myth that people will not pay more for HS Broadband but all the market rearch shows it is not an issue

If you take mobile phones and the average monthly spend is about £37 and in the end a phone is just a phone. They have certainly been very good at getting people to parts with their money to buy things they dont really need

It makes HS Broadband look like a bargain

Ah, but a phone is not just a phone these days, it's a status symbol.

There was a piece on TV last night which claimed lots of people have tariffs they don't need.

That - I'm just guessing here - has to do with people who sign up for contracts @ £30/mo just to get the latest iPhone or HTC, as opposed to needing that tariff because they make lots of calls.

After all, buying the thing outright for £500 is far too much money - it's a bargain if you can get it for just £30/mo over two years, isn't it

You can't put the high speed broadband on a table in the pub.

That, and, you can get 24meg broadband from Plusnet for a few pennies a month, no need to faff around getting the same from AAISP, is there (rolls eyes)

I really think this is probably true to a fair extent.

In reply to a post by Chrysalis:

simple question I want to ask you.

if all sub £20 products dissapeared tommorow, how many do you think would drop broadband altogether vs keep it at the higher price.

Good question. I think a fair number would drop it altogether.

It was a mixture as they could do both voice and xDSL.

Very few. Many might say that but would not actually do so. These people would happily pay £40 a month for a mobile phone. They might shop around to try to find a sub £20 product but in the end 95% of them would pay it. THere are not even that many sub £20 offering on the market those that are ther bargain baement cheap and cheerful type

Edited by deleted (Tue 12-Apr-11 18:03:54)

On what is this 95% based - a hunch? Or actual research?

If actual research, then firms need to band together and set a minimum price of £20 per month for the broadband products, and not worry about shedding the 5% or so who will not stick with the product.